This tournament is still one of the worst that I have played at the FIDE Online Arena. In these first three rounds, I lost two out of three despite the fact that I was clearly the higher rated player in all of those three games. In the last two rounds of the tournament I did won both of the remaining games but because the last round game I won on time, due to the fact that my opponent did not make any moves in that game, it did feel a bit like a tournament where nothing goes my way. In the few months time that have passed since this game was played, I think that my playing strength has improved enough that these kind of bad performances are not likely to appear as often as they may have appeared in the past. My recent statistics should be confirming my current improvement in strength, I have managed to get to the 98.7 percentile at Chess.com's Online Chess ratings. The fact that I had a streak of 20 games at the FIDE Online Arena with a score of 13 wins, 6 draws and 1 loss would also suggest that I am doing something right. Still those stats might be a bit misleading because I have faced only one opponent in those 20 games. After that 20 game period I have a lost two games in a row. Those games are part of the 100 game match I am playing against a friend of mine that when I started playing chess in over the board tournaments, I lost pretty much all the time against him. I have added one mate in one, one mate in three, one mate in four and two mate in five puzzles today. Until Monday, my fellow chess enthusiasts!
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